Ebola vaccinations underway in DRC

Following confirmed reports of a renewed Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has said that it expects vaccination to start on Wednesday.

This coincides with an earlier announcement by the ministry of health in DRC that it has received approval from the Ethics Committee to start the exercise.

On his Twitter feed, the Minister of Health Oly Ilunga announced that genetic sequencing of the virus by the National Institute of Biomedical Research, or INRB, has confirmed that the deadly virus in North Kivu is Ebola Zaire and not linked to the Ecuador epidemic that left 33 people dead and was declared over at the end of July.